Jatropha Oil for Energy Partners Chile Ltd...

Gold Star Biofuels, a Goldstar Farms Ltd. company based in Ghana, has secured a contract to build small biodiesel production facilities throughout Chile to produce a combined total capacity of 77 MMgy from Chilean jatropha oil for Energy Partners Chile Ltd. A B20 biodiesel blend will be used to produce electricity at Energy Partners Chile’s 43-megawatt power generation facility in Degan on the island of Chiloe.

According to Jack Holden, executive director for Gold Star Biofuels, the company has commitments from farmers in Chile to grow jatropha on 2.5 million acres. “We like to find land where other things don't grow very well or land that has been fallow,” Holden said. He said the biofuels company will set up eight separate refineries in Chile that will each produce more than 100,000 liters (26,400 gallons) of biodiesel per day. Holden said the technology provider will be USFuelTech LLC of Aiken, S.C., which provides turnkey, modular biodiesel refineries.

Gold Star Biofuels plans to begin cultivating jatropha in Chile and within two years will deliver biodiesel to Energy Partners Chile for power generation.

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